THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG ORGANIZATIONAL MYOPIA, ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY AT A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION IN TURKEY: A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING

Abstract

This study aimed to introduce a structural equation model of testing the mediation role oforganizational resilience in the relationship between organizational myopia andorganizational sustainability. Thus, it was designed with structural regression model. In thestudy, it was aimed to collect data from a higher education organization which had alreadyreceived “Turkey Continuity in Excellence Award”. For this purpose, the participants of thestudy comprised purposefully selected 322 academics at Sakarya University, which was theonly university in Turkey having the relevant award holistically. For the data collection,“Organizational Sustainability Scale” developed by Sezen-Gültekin (2019), “OrganizationalResilience Scale” and “Organizational Myopia Scale” adapted to educational organizationsby Sezen-Gültekin (2019) were utilized. As result, it was found that the established modelhad acceptable and excellent compliance values. In addition, it was determined that theorganizational myopia independent variable directly affected the organizational resiliencedependent variable, while it was both directly and indirectly organizational sustainabilitydependent variable. It was also seen that the organizational resilience independent variabledirectly affected the organizational sustainability dependent variable. In addition, it wasobserved that the organizational myopia and the organizational resilience variables hadindirect effects on the sub-dimensions of executive, economic, social, cultural andenvironmental sustainability.